Courtenay Taylor
Courtenay Taylor is an actor, born 1969.
Half of Courtenay Taylor's career does not show up on a film site at all, because it happens in games. She is Jack in the Mass Effect series, Ada Wong in Resident Evil, the female Sole Survivor in Fallout 4, Amanda Holliday and Empress Caiatl in Destiny and Destiny 2, and Scarlett Rhodes in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. None of those are among the credits listed here, and they are the reason a very large number of people have spent forty hours listening to her without knowing her name.
Her screen work is where the range is easiest to hear. Starla in Regular Show and K.O. in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes sit at one end, cartoon voices pitched for children's television. Helen in Love, Death and Robots, Callisto in X-Men 97, the Matron of Ravens in The Legend of Vox Machina and Doctor Poison in Wonder Woman: Bloodlines sit at the other, all of them adult animation that wants menace or gravity.
The neatest credit is Resident Evil: Damnation, where she voices Ada Wong in a film rather than a game, which is the point where the two halves of the career touch. Born in San Francisco in 1969, she also has a stretch of live-action work behind her, including Denise in the deadpan French oddity Rubber, and Golden Gate, Take and Little Chenier before that.
Movies (12)
- Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind (2022)
- Resident Evil: Damnation (2012)
- The Addams Family 2 (2021)
- Secret Society of Second-Born Royals (2020)
- Rubber (2010)
- The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021)
- Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019)
- Merry Little Batman (2023)
- Lulu Is a Rhinoceros (2025)
- Little Chenier (2008)
- Take (2008)
- Golden Gate (1994)
TV (12)
Where to start with Courtenay Taylor
Try Love, Death & Robots first. The anthology format means her episode stands alone, the animation is aimed squarely at adults, and Helen is the sort of part that needs a voice to carry both competence and exhaustion.
If you know her from games, go to Resident Evil: Damnation next, since hearing Ada Wong outside a controller is a genuinely odd experience. X-Men '97 and The Legend of Vox Machina are the strongest of the recent adult animation, and both give her characters built on authority.
For the comic register, Regular Show and OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes are the Cartoon Network years, and the gap between the two voices is the best argument for her range. Castlevania fills in the additional-voices side of the job. Rubber is the wild card: live action, no voice trickery, and a film about a tyre.